Re: [Freedos-devel] Testings on the FreeDOS 1.0 second version available

2006-07-30 Thread Blair Campbell
> to let the FORMAT / SYS step happen. I do not know whether > that one happens automatically, though. Only if it gets permission first. > In either case, FreeDOS cannot re-read the partition > table on the fly, so you MUST reboot between FDISK and > FORMAT. Doing SYS right after FORMAT without a

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-30 Thread Lyrical Nanoha
On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Michael Devore wrote: > Fixed, although I'm not sure a 286 would get there. Does UPX decompressor > run under non-386? If not, the decompression code will stop it first. Yes. I've run UPX'd binaries on 8086 (Tandy 1000HX) before -uso. ---

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-30 Thread Michael Devore
At 07:48 AM 7/29/2006 +0400, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: >0. In emm386.c you forget remove one space (in "/ *"). And? It's a comment. Is there another one of those #ifdef 0 type things? Because I'm not ready to debate the style of embedded comments again. >1. Bug: wrong handling for clc/stc i

Re: [Freedos-devel] Testings on the FreeDOS 1.0 second version available

2006-07-30 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Aitor, > (3) Once I create the partition with FDISK under WMWARE, I get the > "usual" message: Partition signature != 55AA > and PC locks. I have to FORMAT and SYS manually to avoid this. It took a while to find that string, but basically it means that you did something like FDISK /MBR - beca

[Freedos-devel] ANNOUNCE: DISPLAY 0.13

2006-07-30 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hi all, Uploaded to ibiblio there is the new FD-DISPLAY 0.13, http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/display/ SOURCE: DISP013S.ZIP BINARY: DISP013X.ZIP which has the following new features: (1) Heavy source re-structure. Separation of hardware-specific routines from DISPLA

[Freedos-devel] Testings on the FreeDOS 1.0 second version available

2006-07-30 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hi, I just want to share my experiences on the installing of the latest CD-ROM (full, with sources) available. In general, my opinion is good!! There's a lot of good stuff that is being downloaded for a robust DOS system. There are a couple of faults that I have found, I think that some could be

Re: [Freedos-devel] Notes on rules: was EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-30 Thread Jim Hall
.. > Nah. My wife comes in to see what's going on when there is fast and > furious e-mailing, too. And every time I tell her its about FreeDOS, one > of us who isn't me rolls her eyes and moves back out of the room faster > than she came in. > > Next EMM386 2.21 release, codename "Friend of Qe

Re: [Freedos-devel] Notes on rules: was EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-30 Thread Michael Devore
At 11:19 AM 7/30/2006 -0500, Jim Hall wrote: >Michael Devore wrote: > > [...] > > Heh, "she". Has anyone seen a female within a mile/kilometer/furlong of > > FreeDOS development? Too bad about the lack of them, though. We could > use > > a few. >My wife is sitting a few feet away from me as I w

Re: [Freedos-devel] Notes on rules: was EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-30 Thread Jim Hall
Michael Devore wrote: > [...] > Heh, "she". Has anyone seen a female within a mile/kilometer/furlong of > FreeDOS development? Too bad about the lack of them, though. We could use > a few. My wife is sitting a few feet away from me as I write this. Does that count? :-) -- I'm sorry my pr

Re: [Freedos-devel] Mailer problems

2006-07-30 Thread Jim Hall
... > 1. users shouldn't use 8-bit characters in letters. This is not fix, this is >bad workaround. > 2. SF should turn on 8-bit compatibility (I suggest, this is question of >only one line in config files). > 3. Readers should use bugless servers and clients. > > I think, (2) and (3) are r

Re: [Freedos-devel] Mailer problems

2006-07-30 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 30-Июл-2006 12:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andre Tertling) wrote to [email protected]: AT> mails). I turned out that it is a problem with the mail server that AT> received the mails from the mailing list for me. I had to switch to a [...] AT> message-mime-parts. Sendmail on its be

[Freedos-devel] test

2006-07-30 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
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Re: [Freedos-devel] Mailer problems

2006-07-30 Thread Andre Tertling
Arkady V.Belousov and others wrote: [lots of stuff about havoc'ed emails] I faced the same problem a short while ago (you may remember my test mails). I turned out that it is a problem with the mail server that received the mails from the mailing list for me. I had to switch to a different mai

Re: [Freedos-devel] QEmu problems

2006-07-30 Thread Andreas Bollhalder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello > First of all, creating a FAT on a directory is buggy, -hda fat:/... . When > you have some files bigger than a certain size, it fails with an assertion > failure. Had to deduce this, it doesn't say that there are to big a files. As far as I

Re: [Freedos-devel] QEmu problems

2006-07-30 Thread Japheth
> And then there are numerous problems with the keys. > For example if you start the turbo c debugger (tc) it has a nice feature where > almost every key is repeated twice. So if you press delete, it will delete > two chars > instead of 1. qemu's keyboard emulation is bad. Usually this isn't not

Re: [Freedos-devel] QEmu problems

2006-07-30 Thread Imre Leber
>-Original Message- >From: Andreas Bollhalder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 10:38 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] QEmu problems > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >Imre Leber wrote: >> Am i the only one o